ArtRage Vitae for Windows and MacOS Official release, release!
Whew! It's official - ArtRage Vitae for Windows and MacOS is now released!
There's a bunch of shiny new stuff on the ArtRage homepage: ArtRage Home Page
And if you missed the pre-release, release...
Here are some of the new features in ArtRage Vitae:
Collaborative painting with a friend:
Use the inbuilt PaintLink messaging system to coordinate with your friend.
Start a collaborative painting session through your PaintLink account.
Work with your tools and layers as normal - your friend sees your changes and you see theirs.
Swap ownership of your layers if you want.
Resume a collaborative painting session with your friend - collaboration and layer information is saved with your projects
Share content with all your friends:
Send ArtRage tools, reference images, colour sets and other content directly to your friends from PaintLink messaging
Incorporate content your receive directly into your painting.
You dont need to have a collaborative painting session active - you can send and receive content to anyone in your friends list.
Improved Color pickers:
Turn on Complementary Colors in all the color Pickers to display complements for your current color.
Hexadecimal color values can entered or copied in the color picker.
User-defined Color-Blending profiles:
Real color blending can now use your own color-mixing profile.
Create collections of color blending profiles to match the paint medium.
Color mixing profiles can be scripted, and sent to friends through PaintLink messages.
Tiled Canvas Features:
Turn on horizontal or vertical (or both!) tiling to allow seamless painting across canvas edges.
Great for creating infinitely scrolling backgrounds for games or presentations.
Useful in creating seamless textures for rendering or games.
Improved document saving and reliability:
Documents save more than twice as fast.
Settable auto-save timeouts means you wont lose work.
Faster saving of documents means your workflow is less interrupted.
New Large documents are created up to two times faster.
Improved tools:
Maximum tool size increased to 800%
Improved gap-tolerance on Fill tool - faster and more reliable.
Selection tool has gap-tolerance on Wand fill. Ignore small gaps in your Wand selection areas.
Gradient and Texture Fills can fill to extents of paint borders rather than just selection areas.
Improved Recordable Actions:
Recorded Actions can have Shortcut Keys assigned.
Assigned shortcuts displayed in Actions panel
Included sample Action scripts.
Additional Features:
Larger canvases up to 32500 x 32500 pixels in size
Retina and HiDPI Display support in Windows and MacOS for improved UI rendering.
Script engine has improved support for grids and guide overlays
ArtRage Vitae is available through the Windows Store and Apple App store.
Hassle-free licensing and downloading.
And a tonne of bug fixes, and other speed and reliability enhancements.
(Now I can go and have a bit of a lie-down).
